Overview

• A man has been detained in Algemesí on suspicion of stabbing his partner more than a dozen times and strangling their two-year-old son following years of reported domestic abuse.
• Gijón authorities confirmed that Susana S. G. died of asphyxiation over a month ago and arrested Jesús “El Vasco,” who has since suffered psychotic episodes while in custody.
• A Málaga court ordered the psychiatric hospitalization and restraining order for a 38-year-old accused of attacking his mother and brother with a hammer in La Trinidad.
• Marbella police rescued a woman held captive for two days, charging her alleged abductor with sexual assault, illegal detention and attempted homicide.
• The Audiencia Provincial of Oviedo sentenced a man to 12½ years in prison for murdering an acquaintance in Mieres to seize her pension.